It has never been sufficient to win just a battle to defeat in a war
Posted: 24 Mar 2020, 11:46
If winning just a battle has never been enough to defeat an enemy in a war, then what is the significance of devising a method to win a single battle?
The current corona virus pandemic is just a form of the many different forms of natural catastrophe that has repeatedly affected our people and dragged them back many times while they were trying to pull themselves out of destitution and improve their life standard a bit.
Among the major factors that contribute to the devastating effect of an arising natural catastrophe are lack of resources and sufficiently designed strategy geared towards pulling the people out of poverty and make them self-reliant, at least to some extent. Every time a disaster arises there are many calls to help to minimize the effect, not at times also ineffectively.
Those efforts which succeeded in overcoming the catastrophe and averting a pending national tragedy then simply withdrew their efforts and went back without any consideration for the preparedness for the future, if the same challenge may have to arise again afterwards.
Ethiopia, among other unfortunate natural and manmade calamities, has made many experiences and at least partly tried to overcome the challenge to a significant degree. The problem remains that those efforts are simply withdrawn and went back as if there is no more similar challenge in the time ahead. The next time the same challenge occurred then people turned to the same old means of calling for support, mainly on the respective local level, without taking any grasp of how a comprehensive national strategy should look like.
The same is happening now with respect to the currently in the mouth of every citizen of the world. Resources are being mobilized in different forms to help our country overcome the challenge specially over the internet but we don’t see any initiative geared towards steering a more comprehensive effort to make the people withstand a similar challenge in the future.
It is not enough if you win 100% the battle (the crisis at hand) without having devised a sound strategy to make the nation somewhat invulnerable to similar challenges in the future. But it must be also clear that a catastrophe or a natural disaster will not go away forever when we have possibly won over the current corona pandemic.
The current corona virus pandemic is just a form of the many different forms of natural catastrophe that has repeatedly affected our people and dragged them back many times while they were trying to pull themselves out of destitution and improve their life standard a bit.
Among the major factors that contribute to the devastating effect of an arising natural catastrophe are lack of resources and sufficiently designed strategy geared towards pulling the people out of poverty and make them self-reliant, at least to some extent. Every time a disaster arises there are many calls to help to minimize the effect, not at times also ineffectively.
Those efforts which succeeded in overcoming the catastrophe and averting a pending national tragedy then simply withdrew their efforts and went back without any consideration for the preparedness for the future, if the same challenge may have to arise again afterwards.
Ethiopia, among other unfortunate natural and manmade calamities, has made many experiences and at least partly tried to overcome the challenge to a significant degree. The problem remains that those efforts are simply withdrawn and went back as if there is no more similar challenge in the time ahead. The next time the same challenge occurred then people turned to the same old means of calling for support, mainly on the respective local level, without taking any grasp of how a comprehensive national strategy should look like.
The same is happening now with respect to the currently in the mouth of every citizen of the world. Resources are being mobilized in different forms to help our country overcome the challenge specially over the internet but we don’t see any initiative geared towards steering a more comprehensive effort to make the people withstand a similar challenge in the future.
It is not enough if you win 100% the battle (the crisis at hand) without having devised a sound strategy to make the nation somewhat invulnerable to similar challenges in the future. But it must be also clear that a catastrophe or a natural disaster will not go away forever when we have possibly won over the current corona pandemic.